The Cavs won the 1st and 4th picks last night, here are the 1st and 4th picks from 2000 on - will these fellas a championship make? I wouldn't be so sure. Success rate can't be higher than %50. We know they are picking Kyrie Irving & probably Kanter - would you be thrilled beyond belief at your chances? If you were Orlando, would you sign and trade Dwight for these picks? I would!
2010 - John Wall, Wesley Johnson
Way, way, way too early to judge either of these guys. But Cavs fans, you aren't winning in '11-'12 either way.
2009 - Blake Griffin, Tyreke Evans (WOW!)
Immediate impact players, although Evans has had big time maturity issues. Just speaks to the insanity of the draft, and drafting young players.
2008 - Derek Rose, Russell Westbrook (WOW!)
Two years into these picks, you have a mega-squad...
2007 - Greg Oden, Mike Conley
Injuries and disappointments...Conley isn't bad, but he's not a championship PG/SG
2006 - Andrea Bargnani, Tyrus Thomas
No thanks.
2005 - Andrew Bogut, Chris Paul
Took Bogut a LONG time to get good, Paul was immediate. If the Cavs use this blueprint, they are a strong '14-'15 team.
2004 - Dwight Howard, Shaun Livingston
Poor Shaun. Dwight + anyone is a good bet, although I can't stand him.
2003 - Lebron James, Chris Bosh
Eight seasons later, 0 championships
2002 - Yao Ming, Drew Gooden
See Oden & Conley
2001 - Kwame Brown, Eddy Curry
Plop.
2000 - Kenyon Martin, Marcus Fizer
Not horrible, but not what you want...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
...My Mellon Collie...
For anyone who is a Smashing Pumpkins fan, I spent about 3 hours today listening to Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, and while I have nothing but incredible things to say about the album, I do recognize that making a double album following up the flawless Siamese Dream was a little presumptuous, and I can look back with reasonable judgement and think, "I wish Mellon Collie was a single album."
So, I am making it a single album. The way I put this in my own brain was, if I was going to tell someone about the Pumpkins for the first time, and after they got comfortable with the insanity of Siamese Dream, I'd then introduce them to Mellon Collie, and this would be the album I wish they had the chance to hear:
1. Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
2. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
3. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
4. Tonight, Tonight
5. Zero
6. Galapogos
7. Muzzle
8. Here Is No Why
9. 1979
10. Thirty-Three
11. In The Arms of Sleep
So, I am making it a single album. The way I put this in my own brain was, if I was going to tell someone about the Pumpkins for the first time, and after they got comfortable with the insanity of Siamese Dream, I'd then introduce them to Mellon Collie, and this would be the album I wish they had the chance to hear:
1. Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
2. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
3. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
4. Tonight, Tonight
5. Zero
6. Galapogos
7. Muzzle
8. Here Is No Why
9. 1979
10. Thirty-Three
11. In The Arms of Sleep
Monday, April 04, 2011
...NCAA @ 9:20pm...
Here is the answer to the question, "Why is the NCAA game at 9:20 tonight?":
Because you always have, and will continue to, watch big games at 9:20pm.
Advertisers drive the whole thing, obviously. This isn't about anything besides maximizing the advertising dollar - anyone who says different is not telling the truth, and anyone who can't understand that doesn't want to know the truth.
You may say, "but I think more people would watch if it started at 8:30," but you don't run Neilson, and you don't sell advertising space for CBS. CBS and its agencies for advertising feel differently. They don't sell a mythical larger audience an hour earlier, they sell a proven audience number that captures full attention of the LIVE West Coast viewership at 9:20pm.
Much like anything else in our capitalistic society - if you don't like how late it starts, don't watch, but more importantly, don't buy the products that advertise during the game, and don't visit the websites of the products that advertise during the game.
We can defeat this thing and by 2085 the game may start at 9:05, if we fight hard enough!
Because you always have, and will continue to, watch big games at 9:20pm.
Advertisers drive the whole thing, obviously. This isn't about anything besides maximizing the advertising dollar - anyone who says different is not telling the truth, and anyone who can't understand that doesn't want to know the truth.
You may say, "but I think more people would watch if it started at 8:30," but you don't run Neilson, and you don't sell advertising space for CBS. CBS and its agencies for advertising feel differently. They don't sell a mythical larger audience an hour earlier, they sell a proven audience number that captures full attention of the LIVE West Coast viewership at 9:20pm.
Much like anything else in our capitalistic society - if you don't like how late it starts, don't watch, but more importantly, don't buy the products that advertise during the game, and don't visit the websites of the products that advertise during the game.
We can defeat this thing and by 2085 the game may start at 9:05, if we fight hard enough!
Monday, March 21, 2011
...Imagineer...
This is why being an imagineer is the greatest possible job on earth.
From the 8:00 minute mark til the end is really the part that astounds me.
This show is completely done by projection, no exterior lighting other than the projection, and each brick of the castle was mapped to design the video and project onto the castle. The photos in the show are selected daily, from the photos that Disney takes throughout the day of guests (yes, voluntarily)
From the 8:00 minute mark til the end is really the part that astounds me.
This show is completely done by projection, no exterior lighting other than the projection, and each brick of the castle was mapped to design the video and project onto the castle. The photos in the show are selected daily, from the photos that Disney takes throughout the day of guests (yes, voluntarily)
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